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GIA 2004 Excellence Winner
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Seated front row: Michele Clark, Jennifer Raeke, Mike Shriner, Jim Leary and David
Gorenstein (Committee Chair)
Back standing row: Jim Halpert, Gary Cooper, Miles Cloyd Virginia Rahr, Richard Rahr, Marilyn Marx, Giulio
Taglialatela, Tetsuo Ashizawa, Rudy Guerrero, Burke Evans and Steve Conner
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Premier Performance - Integrated Advancement
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
UTMB Faculty/Staff Campaign Planning Committee
To create an inclusive process of identifying programs for the university's
fundraising campaign, UTMB President John Stobo convened a committee of
faculty and staff. The committee was charged with reviewing proposals
that would be identified as exceptional examples of research, education,
or clinical work.
Goals
- How could UTMB identify the best projects for external funding and
strike a balance of inclusion across the programs of the institution?
How could we ensure that our priorities would be compelling and address
societal needs? What priorities would be well-received by our constituents?
- Develop a mechanism of evaluation and selection that would identify
programs that represented the mission of the institution, build upon
areas of regional or national strength and if funded, make a difference
in the state, the nation or the world.
- The most critical step was getting the chief financial officers' support
for the campaign projects and funding in order to ensure institutional
commitment once private philanthropy was secured. This required numerous
meetings and a president's staff retreat before completion.
Results
- School officials collected samples of fundraising campaign materials
from a diverse set of higher education and medical institutions across
the country.
- Over a nine-month period, 48 presentations were evaluated, and a Web site
was created to provide guidelines for submitted projects. Four retreats
were held to evaluate exceptional programs at UTMB. Once approved by
the president, they were presented to the volunteer campaign planning
committee.
- The process did far more than identify programs of excellence. It
reaffirmed the basic mission of the institution, fostered collaborative
thinking, generated promising new partnerships among UTMB researchers,
clinicians and academicians, and honed the strategies that will enable
UTMB to realize its vision for the 21st century.
Read the full narrative (Word document)
Contact: Chris Comer, Associate Vice President, Public Affairs, ccomer@utmb.edu
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